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I still remember very well my first and only encounter with Simon Franglen. It was just before the Titanic Live concert in London. Throughout the afternoon during rehearsals I had seen him working alongside James Horner. The depth of their collaboration was evident. On many occasions, he had climbed the railings of the concert hall to access the back of the orchestra to ensure that everything was done properly with the synthesizers.
A small detail that shows the perfectionism and professionalism of a musician.
Minutes before the concert, while we each waited for friends in front of the Royal Albert hall, I[...]

In the months that have passed since James Horner’s tragic death last June, already several tribute concerts have been performed around the world. These events serve both to preserve the composer’s legacy and also remind us that Horner’s body of work now fully belongs to the history books of music. One of the first concerts that was announced and performed took place in Dublin in September. Performed by the RTE Concert Orchestra, conducted by the well known conductor David Brophy, the concert offered several highlights from Horner’s career. We were fortunate enough to be invited to one of the rehearsals,[...]

After the inaugural cruise in 2015, the Titanic Live event returns this year and left Europe for Asia. Note that a concert on US soil was announced in San Jose but was canceled recently.
Update: Titanic Live is coming to the United States with a premiere at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL (near Chicago) on July 29 and July 30, 2016.
05. March 2016 - Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
06. March 2016 - Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
31. March 2016 - Stuttgart
01. April 2016 - Stuttgart
05. April 2016 - Osaka
06. April 2016 - Osaka
08. April 2016 - Munich
09. April 2016 - Munich
10. April 2016[...]

The following articles were written in May, shortly after the Nordic premiere of Pas de Deux in Stavanger. They have been left unaltered as a reminder of the bright and eventful time in the months preceding James Horner’s death, both for the musicians and fans alike. We also present here, our final interview with James Horner, conducted on the morning of May 14. 2015, together with Mari and Håkon Samuelsen.
A huge thank you to Mari Samuelsen, Håkon Samuelsen, Torodd Wigum, Eric Rigler and Clara Sanabras for your time and your kindness in talking with me for these interviews. Also a[...]

Following several statements from James Horner from his Master Class talk conducted by Matthias Keller, Editor of Bavarian Radio, on 31 October 2011.
How he got into film music:
I studied classical music and first wanted to become a classical composer. For getting commissions and grants you’re told to have a proper so-called power base. So I did the PHD and started writing ‘serious music’ (like Conversations and Spectral Shimmers). And one day I was asked to score a student film. And I agreed to it. I didn’t know anything about film. I wasn’t a great film buff. I was doing[...]

29 April 2015.
With host Tommy Pearson and a small audience, an important 75 minutes was to unfold. It is disheartening to note that this, a typical but always insightful interview with Tommy Pearson, would be the last interview our late maestro would give before his sudden passing on June 22, 2015.
With this in mind, the angelic manners of James Horner's conveyance of thought are ever more heartbreaking as he describes some of his career highlights and passions to Tommy and the audience. His wonderfully unique way thinking and speaking those thoughts will be as sorely missed as the mystical[...]

Six months after the world premiere in Liverpool, Mari and Håkon Samuelsen brings Pas De Deux to their home country of Norway in a spectacular concert in Stavanger, which also saw James Horner himself conduct suites from Braveheart, Titanic and Wolf Totem.
Wednesday morning, I attended the dress rehearsal for the concert. This was my first time hearing Pas De Deux, which I will come back to later. In short, the concert audience were in for a treat! The other selections from the programme also sounded great and ready for live performance. Still, they were making small adjustments. Both Torodd Wigum[...]

We regroup here the articles published on the Internet within the framework of the Titanic Live event.
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Review: Titanic Live brings the famous film to life at The Royal Albert Hall
by Hannah Brittr
express.co.uk
A positive report.
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Review: Titanic Live Gives Famous Film A Breath Of New Life
by Emma Griffiths
sofeminine.co.uk
A positive report.
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Sissel Kyrkjebø kunne ha sunget «My heart will go on»
by Ole Eikeland
A Norwegian article about Sissel
side2.no
Titanic vocalist Sissel talks about how James Horner approached her to sing on the score for Titanic after hearing her sing In Heaven There Is A Castle. During Titanic Live she also sang My Heart Will Go[...]

The Stavanger Concert House is an impressive-looking building even from the outside. Opened in 2012, the Fartein Valen concert hall with its 1500 seats has already been renowned internationally for its impressive acoustics. What a great place for a night of James Horner music, including the Nordic premiere of Pas de Deux.
James Horner Film Music has been fortunate to enjoy a very good relationship with Mari and Håkon Samuelsen, even preceding the Pas de Deux premier in Liverpool last fall. Once again, we have been allowed to watch up close as this unique event comes together.
As previously reported, James Horner[...]

Roughly a year ago, when Titanic Live was first announced, we knew this was an event not to be missed. This is the most popular soundtrack composed by James Horner, and to see it performed live in Royal Albert Hall seemed like it would be a very memorable experience. We were not disappointed.
27 April 2015. It is a little past noon when we enter the Royal Albert Hall, an imposing and majestic concert hall built almost 150 years ago, hosting over the course of decades many music legends: Richard Wagner, Arthur Rubinstein, The Beatles, Bob Dylan...
The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra,[...]

The launch of the European Titanic-Live concert tour takes place this weekend in Lucerne (March 13-15), with subsequent performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London (April 27, 2015), Prague, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels and Paris.
All concert dates are available by clicking on this link: Tour Dates.
To our great surprise, James Horner will conduct the first concerts in Lucerne. He is accompanied by Simon Rhodes, Simon Franglen, Sissel, and Tony Hinnigan. Over 150 musicians (21st Century Symphony Orchestra) will perform James Horner’s renowned score and period classics from 1912, played by the legendary ensemble, I Salonisti. For an unforgettable experience, The[...]

Saturday, January 31, 2015. 17:00.
For this particular episode of "Saturday Night at the Movies" for Classic FM, Tommy Pearson indulged in a conversation with James Horner in the summer of 2012, at his home in Los Angeles.
Contained within the two hour running time is a well thought out, in depth and intelligent conversation between two people... one, a passionate music lover, the other, a true genius of the modern art of music composition and its magical ability to break and heal our hearts and souls. In this quiet conversation, James Horner gives us insights into how he began his film[...]

Everybody has a right to judge James Horner's music and not to like it.
Generally this disenchantment is reflected in terribly pejorative verbs such as dig up, borrow, pump, copy, plagiarize ... The kind of actions the composer is accused of, putting forward the idea of ‌‌a lazy craftsman's poor and sloppy work: the pickaxe as an unsubtle tool, borrowing as a sign of weakness, pumping for large quantities, copying for the lack of creativity, plagiarism as a lack of respect towards the other composers.
It is difficult to go against this phenomenon because the allegations are undeniable:
Indeed, it is indisputable[...]

Remember: It should have been on May 19, 1999 in London. James Horner and Sony Music had organized the Titanic concert. In the program, there would have been two suites written for the album, Back To Titanic: "Titanic Suite", "Epilogue - The Deep and Timeless Sea", as well as a Celtic medley including Patriot Games / Braveheart / The Devil's Own and the world premiere of a ballet, Celtic, with the Riverdance troupe. Unfortunately consumed by the composition of the score for Mighty Joe Young, the composer had not time to finish his ballet and the concert had to be[...]

There are names you will often run into on James Horner’s album covers: Ian Underwood, Tony Hinnigan, Simon Rhodes ... For 25 years one of them has been present almost every time, proof of a collaborator who has become indispensable. James Horner speaks of him thus in the liner notes to the soundtrack album for Troy:
"my wonderful friend without whose guidance and wise counsel I would be lost."
This close and faithful staff member is the legendary music editor, Jim Henrikson. Prior to working with James Horner, he participated in projects for television (Star Trek: The Original Series) and classic[...]

Wednesday, October 2, 2013, Vienna.
Around 3pm, James Horner arrived at the Max Reinhardt Seminar with Varese Sarabande executive producer Robert Townson and Dr. Sandra Tomek, Managing Director and Artistic Producer of Hollywood In Vienna.
For an hour and twenty minutes, before an audience of 200, the composer answered questions from Robert Townson and the public. The conference featured five video clips from the following films: A Beautiful Mind (Creating "Governing Dynamics"), Braveheart (A Gift of a Thistle), Legends of the Fall (The Ludlows), Avatar (Jake's First Flight), and finally Titanic (Rose).
James Horner's emotion during each sequence, the precision of[...]

ACADEMY AWARD (1997)
Best Original Score Titanic
ACADEMY AWARD (1997)
Best Original Song My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD (1998)
Favorite Soundtrack Album Titanic
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD (1997)
Best Original Score Titanic
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD (1997)
Best Original Song My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
GOLDEN SATELLITE AWARD (2002)
Best Original Song All Love Can Be from A Beautiful Mind
GRAMMY AWARD (1998)
Song of the Year My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
GRAMMY AWARD (1998)
Record of the Year My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
GRAMMY AWARD (1998)
Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
GRAMMY AWARD (1990)
Best Instrumental Composition[...]

A quick note about this long awaited edition, released a few days ago. Packaging, image and sound quality are awesome.
This is available in three different versions:
A 2D pack, which contains the film in 2D version both on Blu-Ray and on 2 DVD, and another Blu-Ray containing special features.
A 3D pack, which contains the 3D version of the film on two Blu-Ray discs, another Blu-Ray with the 2D version of the film, and another Blu-Ray with special features.
A gift box.
In the making-off documentary, James Horner makes a brief appearance. During a few seconds we can see him conducting the suite he[...]

By Bjarne Thune (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0],
Sissel Kyrkjebø (born June 24, 1969) is a Norwegian opera singer (soprano).
She was only 17 when her first album “Sissel” sold 700,000 copies.
In 1997, Sissel was involved in the soundtrack of the movie Titanic, which attracted a record number of spectators in 1998.
In 2002, Sissel released her first album in the United States. During her career she has sold 9 million albums.
Source: Wikipedia
Official site: Sissel.net
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By Anirudh Koul (Celine Dion Concert) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Celine Dion (born March 30, 1968 in Quebec) is a Canadian singer.
In France, she became famous in 1983 with the title D'amour ou d'amitié.
Her first English album, Unison, was released in 1990, and it allowed her to be known in the United States and around the world.
In 2002, she signed a contract to produce four to five nights a week at Caesars Palace's ‘The Colosseum’ in Las Vegas.
She has sold over 200 million albums worldwide.
At the ceremony of the World Music Awards in 2007, she received the Legend Award, in recognition[...]

By Irene Young, via Wikimedia Commons
Alasdair Fraser is worldwide recognized as one of the finest Scottish fiddle players. He participated in more than one hundred TV and Radio shows in the UK and the USA. He played for the soundtracks of several major films such as The Last of the Mohicans and Titanic. Alasdair released several critically acclaimed albums as Dawn Dance (1996) and Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle, Volume One (2001) and he contributed to over 50 albums as a guest artist.
Official Site: alasdairfraser.com
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Wilbur Jennings (born in 1944 in the Texas town of Kilgore) is an author, songwriter and performer.
He has written or co-written many contributions for artists such as BB King, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston, Linda Ronstadt, Celine Dion and others.
He received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1997 for the lyrics of the song My Heart Will Go On for James Cameron's Titanic.
Source : Wikipedia
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Angela George [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screenwriter, and editor.
In 1971, he shifted to United States to fulfill his dream of becoming a film director, and he worked as a truck driver to support his screen writing desire. In 1980 he got his first professional film job where he worked as an art director for the film Battle Beyond The Stars. In 1981 he directed this first film Piranha Part Two: The Spawning but he made his mark on Hollywood in following years where he had[...]